tenement : Idioms & Phrases

• (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier. Wharton's Law Dict.

Webster 1913

• (Law), that on which the burden of a servitude or an easement is imposed. Cf. Dominant estate, under Dominant.

Webster 1913

• noun a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses
  

WordNet

• noun a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
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WordNet

• commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families.

Webster 1913